(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
40%
20%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
50%
40%↓
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
50%↑
40%↓
30%
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Wanda James
(D) Milat Kiros
80%
20%
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
40%↓
30%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
30%↑
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
55%↓
45%↑
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Shannon Bird
(D) Manny Rutinel
45%↓
30%
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
THURSDAY UPDATE: Readers may recall then-state Rep. Gabe Evans discussing the ins and outs of background checks based on his service overseeing subordinate National Guardsmen during legislative debate, a subject that has come up repeatedly with respect to President re-elect Donald Trump’s shady selections for key Cabinet posts. The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer reported Monday […]
UPDATE: As The Colorado Sun reports in its “Unaffiliated” newsletter, State Party Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman is also hoping for a job in the Trump administration and is surely hoping nobody fact checks her application for employment: Scheppelman is taking credit for Republican gains in the state House and in the 8th Congressional District in an […]
Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (D-Lakewood) is a few weeks away from becoming just the 14th woman to give birth while serving as a Member of Congress. Before that happens, she and a bipartisan group of colleagues are pushing for a common sense resolution that Republican leadership basically ignored in 2024. As Punchbowl News explains: A bipartisan group […]
Unless you’re above the socioeconomic majority of Colorado consumers who shop for your own groceries, and we most certainly are not, you’re probably aware that the price of fresh eggs in particular has increased dramatically in recent months. The continuing increases of the price of food and other must-buy consumer products have made it harder […]
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” –Charles Darwin
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Nathan Deal reports, Rep. Matt Soper is once again very sorry: The Daily Sentinel reached out to Soper for comment and received a text from Soper late Tuesday morning, reading: “My only comment will be that my Tweet/X was in poor taste and while I am not a […]
UPDATE: From Sen. Michael Bennet: President Jimmy Carter campaigned on telling the truth to the American people, and he kept his promise. He was a devoted family man, principled statesman, and champion for rural communities. His post-presidency set a global standard for dignity and selflessness. Susan and I join Colorado in mourning his loss and […]
AP reports via CNN on an incident the week before Christmas involving a reporter for Grand Junction’s KJCT-TV, who was reportedly chased for miles and violently assaulted outside the station’s studios for the crime of being a reporter in “Trump’s America.” A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news […]
A simmering controversy in arch-conservative Weld County is playing out mostly under the radar of preoccupied local media, as the county perhaps best known for being the center of an ill-fated attempt to secede from the rest of Colorado a decade ago defends a county commission redistricting plan that not only divides and reduces the […]
FRIDAY UPDATE #2: CNN reports after a tumultuous day that in the end saw Democrats rally to the rescue of House Speaker Mike Johnson to pass a continuing resolution without Trump’s spurious demand for a hike in the debt limit: The House has voted to pass a stopgap funding bill just hours before a midnight […]
There has been a lot of talk lately about the role of vacancy committees in filling open seats for elected office, and for good reason. The problem is certainly not unique to the state legislature, though that’s where much of the focus has been recently. Oddly enough (as we’ll examine in a moment), turnover inside […]
Here’s a recent email blast from Colorado Republican Party, ostensibly raising funds for a portrait of President re-elect Donald Trump to grace the presidential portrait hall in the rotunda of the Colorado State Capitol: [W]e have a unique opportunity to honor this legacy in the Colorado State Capitol Rotunda. We aim to commission a hand-painted […]
Congressman-elect Gabe Evans (R-Adams County) won’t officially cast a vote in Congress until early January, but he’s already talking at length about some key issues. In some cases, he’s taking all the positions available. In a recent interview with Marc Rod for the publication Jewish Insider, Evans went into detail about his opinions on U.S. funding […]
The last two weeks of December are generally considered a quiet time for politics, especially as the ecosystem assesses the results of this year’s momentous election which has effectively scrambled conventional wisdom and given rise to deep introspection among Democrats across the country–even here in Colorado where the party rode out the “red wave” better […]
If you thought that the Colorado Republican Party was done with its 2024 infighting just because the election is over… Nah, who are we kidding? Nobody would have thought as much. The metaphorical — and perhaps literal — knives are still out in a State Party that destroyed its own relevancy with a bunch of […]
As NBC News reports, Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran now infamous for having choked to death a Black man who was allegedly threatening passengers on a New York City train in 2023, is getting the A-list treatment from President-elect Donald Trump and sidekick J.D. Vance after his acquittal on negligent homicide charges this week: Daniel […]
There are 12 shopping days left until Christmas. Wait…what? Crap. Let’s Get More Smarter! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. FIRST UP… ► Democratic State Rep. […]
We haven’t heard much from Congressman-elect Jeff Crank since he defeated Colorado Republican Party Chair Dave Williams in the June Primary for the GOP nomination in CO-05 (Colorado Springs). As expected, Crank had no trouble winning the General Election for the right to replace retiring Rep. Doug Lamborn, and now he’s starting to speak up…though […]
Happy Krampusnacht; please celebrate responsibly. Let’s Get More Smarter! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. FIRST UP… ► A mandatory recount in HD-16 (Colorado Springs) indicates […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally published at the Colorado Times Recorder A Christian nationalist college founded by one of the country’s top anti-gay and anti-abortion conservatives is celebrating U.S. Rep.-elect Gabe Evans (R-CO) as its “first-ever graduate to be elected” to Congress. The undergraduate institution, called Patrick Henry College (PHC), doesn’t hide its alignment with […]
Happy Krampusnacht; please celebrate responsibly. Let’s Get More Smarter! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. FIRST UP… ► As talk of mass deportations in the next […]
As CNN reports, after two weeks of “outreach” to skeptical Republican U.S. Senators, the nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as the nation’s Secretary of Defense is hanging by a pube: Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, told CNN “no” he’s not dropping out despite facing a tough path […]
The 2024 election cycle in Colorado is almost complete, with just one significant recount still underway for control of a State House seat in Colorado Springs. Once that outcome is final, it will be time for Republicans to do some financial accounting for 2024…and the numbers won’t look very good at all. Should Republican Rebecca Keltie […]
UPDATE: In a rambling email blast Saturday, Colorado GOP “Ballot and Election Security Chairman” “Raging” Ron Hanks lays the whole wacky theory out: Colorado’s election system was more mismanaged and corrupted in 2024 than ever, and the popular vote trends we saw in every other state strangely did not register in Colorado. We know, of […]
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” –Edmund Burke
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